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officials say at least 10 U.S.

service members were injured Friday when Iranian missiles hit a military base in Saudi Arabia.

The attack hit Prince Sultan Air Base.

The attack also damaged several U.S.

refueling planes.

Israel says a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted before it reached that country.

It's the first time Yemen has joined in the fighting in the region.

President Trump is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East as he tries to press Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz to allow passage by trapped oil and gas tankers.

As NPR's Aya Batraoui reports, this comes as officials from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar met separately with Vice President Vance.

A California sheriff who's running as a Republican for governor has seized another batch of ballots as part of an election fraud probe there.

This comes after the state's attorney general petitioned a court to stop the sheriff's investigation.

Madison Allman of member station KVCR reports.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S.

is not pushing Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia in order to get security guarantees and a ceasefire plan.

Ukraine's president said this week that the U.S.

was doing just that, but Rubio Friday said Volodymyr Zelensky was lying.

Rubio says the Trump administration was simply telling Zelensky what Russia is demanding.

In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, six-seeded Notre Dame pulled off the upset of the day by defeating Vanderbilt at No.

2 seed 67-64 in Fort Worth on Friday.